The current (May) issue of Harvard Law Review has papers from a Privacy and Technology Symposium. You can download the full papers from the links below: SYMPOSIUM PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY Introduction: Privacy Self-Management and the Consent Dilemmas Daniel J. Solove What Privacy is For Julie E. Cohen The Dangers of Surveillance Neil M. Richards The [...]
The odds are you are not just a face in the crowd any longer. Even if your picture isn’t plastered all over social networking and photo-sharing sites, facial recognition technology in public places is making it harder if not impossible to remain anonymous. Lesley Stahl reports on the new ways this technology is being used [...]
Sarah Kessler reports: When Jason Sosa started work on a webcam technology that detects, in real time, the age, gender, attention time, and glances of the people looking at it, he thought he was solving an advertising problem. It’s turned out to be much more. His startup’s first product was a digital billboard that changes the [...]
Associated Press reports: In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes [...]
Charlie Osborne reports: A group of Congress members have sent a letter to Google seeking answers to privacy and data concerns caused by Google Glass. The letter (.pdf), addressed to CEO Larry Page, was sent by eight members of Congress led by U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, Texas. The members of the Congressional bipartisan Privacy Caucus say they are [...]
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports: Tragically, Aaron Swartz, hounded by an apparently over-zealous prosecutor, committed suicide in early 2013. His just-unveiled major open-source privacy project, DeadDrop, lives on in a citizen and press protection program, The New Yorker’s Strongbox. Strongbox is the first use of DeadDrop technology. The New Yorker magazine will use it so that its readers can “communicate with our [...]
Christopher Mims writes: Safe Shepherd is a company that searches the web for all the public records available on Americans, and then presents them in a dashboard. Try it for yourself—it’s free—and the results are almost guaranteed to be unnerving. The information is mostly innocuous, and includes your address, phone number and email, but the fact [...]